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“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?”

Two Given Chance Numbers Five Wife Type Months Right Now Charm Marrying

Author:Vince Neil

“Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.”

Two Term Numbers Careers Higher Billions Online Revenue Higher Education Providers

Author:John B. Larson

“You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.”

Years Stills Two Christian Christ Numbers Teaching Thousand Conscious Structure Thinker Thousand Years Pastor Theologian

Author:Pope Francis

“All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.”

Ifs World Littles Two Done Home Wanted Together Three Numbers Tvs Majors Excited Math Corporations Allowing Get Real

Author:Carol Vorderman

“To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.”

Knows World Giving Wells Two Enough Feelings Games Numbers Four Special Give Me International Ridiculous Satisfied Cups Injury Lions Setback World Cup Fulfilment

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“Can't believe the number of tracks I get sent every day now. Everyone is at it! There's no way you can keep up and I have two A&R guys!”

Way Believe Two Guy Numbers Track

Author:Ralph Lawson

“Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.”

Two Shows Bigs Hurt Numbers Boys New York Kings

Author:Kara Lindsay

“I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Two Different Whole Would Be Jobs Numbers Four Boring Bunch Fantastic Genre Theme Just One Be Kind Stale

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'”

Two Seems Numbers Fiction Science Fiction Genre Being The Best Charmed Science Fiction Movie Terminator 2

Author:Dave Gibbons

“But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)”

Thinking Years Two Might Today Together Science Results Numbers Subjects Years Ago Skins Agree Add Errors Average Divides Mathematician Friction

Author:Hiram Maxim

“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”

“You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.”

Two Three Numbers Worry Repetition Placement Number Three

Author:Ornette Coleman

“Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed”

Two Numbers Failure Departed

Author:Gustav Mahler

“Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.”

Giving Wells Two Done Would Be Wanted Challenges Numbers Happened Type Shots Dancing Dance Best Shot

Author:Evander Holyfield

“One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.”

Two Running Lasts Choices Numbers Clear One Thing Office Voters Gray Governors Crew Wilson Schwarzenegger

Author:Gray Davis

“Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.”

People Two Common Numbers Economic Waste Regard Advertising Conception Expenditures

Author:Daniel Starch

“Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's really all technology for our entire history has ever done.”

People Doe Two Done Numbers Technology Communication Increase Two Things Velocity

Author:Jack Dorsey

“There is always competition. Whatever you do, there will be competition, and you have to decide how you’re going to play. For me, I had to be the very best. I had to be the very best. Because, if I was not the very best, I would end up being number two.”

Ifs Two Ends Play Numbers Competition

Author:Debbi Fields

“In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.”

“I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.”

Years Two Home Bigs Song Numbers Written Missing Longing Tension Open Road Longing For Home

Author:James Taylor

“My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.”

Ifs Two Facts Numbers Leader Advice Mines Workers China Bridges Hiring Port Shanghai

Author:Barack Obama

“Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.”

People Thinking Want Two Left Numbers Perception

Author:Chris Murray

“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.”

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.”

Writing Believe Two Hard Political Found Numbers Poet Goes On Absurd Tendencies Repeats Logical Ads Construction Refuge Novelty Romanticism Hard To Believe Recurring Surrealist Decimals

Author:Randall Jarrell

“The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.”

Two Numbers Cities Useless Expenses Plague Calamity Famine Outcast Drought Scapegoat Athenians

Author:James G. Frazer

“I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Wells Two Song Numbers Half Taken Albums What You Want

Author:Clay Aiken

“I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.”

Ifs Two Names Numbers Morning Urges Airline

Author:Warren Buffett

“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!”

“The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's 'History,' compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy.”

Two Book Facts Faces Numbers Enormous Chains Reasoning Chapters Quotations Superficial Testament Discourse Compelled New Testament Face To Face Blasphemy

Author:Leo Strauss

“1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number. 4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor. 5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.”

Two Numbers Property Belonging Successors Number 2 Number 3 Number 4

Author:Giuseppe Peano

“Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.”

Believe Two Reason Three Numbers Economy Economic Lows Drinking Oil Quitting Reason Why Economist Sanctions Vodka Number Three Quit Drinking Economic Sanctions Russian Economy

Author:David Letterman

“False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.”

Source: Trout Fishing

“Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.”

Two Play Problem Guy Games Sports Numbers Effort Shapes Fatigue Snaps

Author:Steve Spurrier

“I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.”

Source: Aristotle Onassis

“The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain and agony. Saturday was the day of doubt and confusion and misery. But Easter, that Sunday, was the day of hope and joy and victory. You will face these three days over and over and over in your lifetime. And when you do, you’ll find yourself asking, as I did, three fundamental questions: Number one, what do I do in my days of pain? Two, how do I get through my days of doubt and confusion? Three, how do I get to the days of joy and victory? The answer is Easter.”

“This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that were previously available only to a few individuals, and how this achievement has given rise to equally unprecedented inequalities. Unique in its focus and scope, exceptional knowledge and coherence, and careful argumentation, The Great Escape is highly illuminating and a delight to read.”

“Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!”

Two Individual Numbers Scales Commerce Traffic Intercourse

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.”

Two Three Numbers Steps Organization Phones Terrorist Pursue Phone Calls Nsa

Author:Barack Obama

“The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.”

“We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.”

“Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.”

Two Numbers Our Lives Birth

Author:Javad Alizadeh

“At one time or another the more fortunate among us make three startling discoveries. Discovery number one: Each one of us has, in varying degree, the power to make others feel better or worse. Discovery two: Making others feel better is much more fun than making them feel worse. Discovery three: Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.”

Feels Two Three Fun Numbers Kindness Degrees Discovery Fortunate One Time Feel Better

Author:Laura Huxley

“We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth and competition within the United States of America and compete internationally. I don't know anywhere where it's written that we have to be number two.”

Knows Two States America Nations Growth United Numbers United States Focus Written Politician Competition United States Of America

Author:Joe Biden

“I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories.”

Want Giving Two Jobs Three Felt Process Memories Numbers Race Ready Training Paid Number Three

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.”

Two Numbers Worst Lists

Author:Nicollette Sheridan

“A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical governors. The temple of the Celestial Venus at Carthage, whose sacred precincts formed a circumference of two miles, was judiciously converted into a Christian church; and a similar consecration has preserved inviolate the majestic dome of the Pantheon at Rome.”

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.”

Kind Two Government Form Poor Common Numbers Opinion Democracy Rich Arise Oligarchy

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

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